My phrasing was poor, sorry. Lots of people have said that the extra space on bluray discs was a waste for a year or two. With this game and UT3, the dvd format is starting to show its age with the 360. I guess this gap will just grow in the future. With nearly 50 gigs of storage on a dual layer disc, it seems that much premium content can be added for the PS3. It would either have to be burned to multiple 360 discs or made available as downloadable content. That would be a quick way to fill up the hard drives and make the base console without a HD not a bargain at all.
The obvious answer is: No. If it were, then people would be demanding a reversal on this Genuine Advantage program. I wish this Black Screen treatment had been active when the MS servers were declaring that perfectly legitimate Vista installs were pirated. Maybe that would have been punishment enough to get the peasants to rise up and revolt...
RFID packages don't reflect EMR, the process is a bit more involved.
Tuned coil builds energy from transmitted RF.
Energy is used to power chip, calculate response and transmit the answer (more RF, local this time).
When the reader RF ceases, the stored energy in the coil will collapse which will generate a fairly strong local magnetic pulse and possibly a narrow-band high frequency EMR pulse of its own.
These things would happen very frequently if worn out in the real world and that would concern me greatly. I won't be wearing one.
Linus chose the scheduler written by the person that best interacted within the existing developer structure and responded to problem reports. The rejected scheduler may have been slightly better, but the developer was much less cooperative and responsive to bug reports. He killed his own project because of attitude.
Vista already ships with DX10, that 2.3% indicates the steam users that have both vista and DX10 capable hardware. Just having DX10 installed is not the same thing...
The only windows system I currently have is an AMD dual-core laptop dual booting Linux. I first noticed the slow network speeds while transferring files to my main desktop linux system from vista on the laptop. If it had been 90% of the network speeds that I get from linux (on the same hardware) it wouldn't have been very noticeable and it wouldn't have been worth the trouble to track down the problem. I didn't keep detailed notes, but it was about 12% of the speed for transferring large files, either direction. I'm not the one that figured out the audio connection though.
Yup, they are still around despite the best efforts of SCO. And RH is making useful and relevant (cross-distro too) tools unlike the Me crap from SCO. I am running this on ubuntu and can even deploy on different platforms! Sounds like RedHat is confident in the quality of their products, unlike that sue-happy company.
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The reason SCO lost is that SCO was wrong. SCO has a pretty good legal team too and that is why they were able to stay in the game this long, even though they had a very weak case with no real evidence presented. Well, that and some very tolerant judges.
I checked the site and forum, but no search results on PS3. Having just bought a shiny new 60gig PS3, this release makes me wonder just how easy it could be to take fairly good advantage of all the cores.
Hmmm, it may be one of my first projects; six cores running @ 3.2GHz and an easy method of putting them to use. It would be interesting to parallelize pi calculation and see how long it would take to get one million digits.
I see your point, that you are not concerned about a MS lawsuit. I suspect that if you were a Linspire freak, that you would also use it as a server platform which would also invalidate the so called peace agreement.
I have been using Linux for about 13 years, so Linspire is not really targeted at me, but the target market will be buying the distro so they can get this imagined protection. That means they will be voluntarily giving up their GPL rights for that bit of temporary protection.
Their is a very large difference in the perceived threat between gnasher719 threatening to sue and Microsoft doing the same. In your example, the buyers of Redhat have not agreed to your terms, you merely made the offer. Now the terms I quoted above are part of the Linspire license agreement that is accepted while installing. Looks like a night and day difference between your example and the actual MS/Linspire pact. Please follow the groklaw story for far more qualified opinions than I am qualified to give.
Please could you explain why I couldn't use the gcc compilers on a box running Linspire for development?
Why, yes, I believe I can. Here is an excerpt from the MS-Linspire agreement:
"Customers" means an enterprise or individual that utilizes a specific copy of a Covered Product for its intended purpose as authorized by Linspire. Enterprises or individuals are not Customers when they (1) resell, license, supply, distribute or otherwise make available to third parties such specific copy or additional copies of the Covered Product; or (2) resell, license, supply, or distribute the output of SDKs or developer kits they utilize as a Customer.
MS defines a customer as someone they temporarily promise to not sue. If you want to know more, then you may want to read and participate in the groklaw article.
People that use a Linux distro that is newly encumbered by Microsoft patent agreements *cough*Linspire*cough* cannot use the compilers for development anyway. What does the actual GPL version matter to the users in that situation?
I am certainly not a lawyer, but MS has a ton of lawyers that seem to have become experts in the GPL arena and they seem to have little fear of GPL v2, but v3 seems to have them concerned. It seems that if developers want to stick with v2, then they may as well go all the way to the FreeBSD license. v3 is the future of free and open source projects that want to remain free in both senses until MS gets brave enough to sue over some vague patents. But if they can get enough partners like Linspire and Novell, they will have crippled much of the spirit that drives opensource. I plan on supporting companies that are standing up to the MS bullying in whatever ways I can.
Wow! You are the perfect poster child for the Democratic party.... Not! I have voted for both major parties and independants in the past. The Democratic and Republican sides of me sure hope you do not have children.
So does this detect the driver speaking on a cell phone or simply someone in the car talking on a cell phone? TFA did not give details. Seems like a big problem if they mistakenly identify a car and a ticket is issued for a passenger using a phone.
The differences between Unix distributions are only superficial.
Have you actually worked with many different OSes? I have found VMS, Linux, various BSDs and AIX to be very different. Especially when talking about administration tasks. Not very superficial at all, related like a family, but can be as different as two children from the same parents.
TFA says he is a Briton living in Australia since the age of 7, but doesn't mention his actual citizenship. I wonder if that played a part in the willingness of the Aussie gov to extradite. I think this is a very slippery slope they have ventured out onto and sets a dangerous precedent, which is what future legal actions are usually based on.
What happens if a muslim-centric country wanted to extradite me for breaking sharia laws? I've dated a woman that was separated but not divorced, consumed alcohol, don't adhere to the dress code, etc... Does this now mean that the US gov would willingly extradite me to Iran to be tried? It would seem that they already set the precedent that it would be acceptable.
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My phrasing was poor, sorry. Lots of people have said that the extra space on bluray discs was a waste for a year or two. With this game and UT3, the dvd format is starting to show its age with the 360. I guess this gap will just grow in the future. With nearly 50 gigs of storage on a dual layer disc, it seems that much premium content can be added for the PS3. It would either have to be burned to multiple 360 discs or made available as downloadable content. That would be a quick way to fill up the hard drives and make the base console without a HD not a bargain at all.
See, all that extra capacity does have a use right now. No more waiting required.
Yup, including everyone running Ubuntu like me.
The obvious answer is: No. If it were, then people would be demanding a reversal on this Genuine Advantage program. I wish this Black Screen treatment had been active when the MS servers were declaring that perfectly legitimate Vista installs were pirated. Maybe that would have been punishment enough to get the peasants to rise up and revolt...
These things would happen very frequently if worn out in the real world and that would concern me greatly. I won't be wearing one.
Linus chose the scheduler written by the person that best interacted within the existing developer structure and responded to problem reports. The rejected scheduler may have been slightly better, but the developer was much less cooperative and responsive to bug reports. He killed his own project because of attitude.
Bus? Oh, you mean that yellow limo that used to take me to school! I felt so special, the only others that could ride were Viacom lawyers.
Vista already ships with DX10, that 2.3% indicates the steam users that have both vista and DX10 capable hardware. Just having DX10 installed is not the same thing...
The only windows system I currently have is an AMD dual-core laptop dual booting Linux. I first noticed the slow network speeds while transferring files to my main desktop linux system from vista on the laptop. If it had been 90% of the network speeds that I get from linux (on the same hardware) it wouldn't have been very noticeable and it wouldn't have been worth the trouble to track down the problem. I didn't keep detailed notes, but it was about 12% of the speed for transferring large files, either direction. I'm not the one that figured out the audio connection though.
No, the network speed drops to ~10-15% of non-audio playing speed. Very significant issue.
Yup, they are still around despite the best efforts of SCO. And RH is making useful and relevant (cross-distro too) tools unlike the Me crap from SCO. I am running this on ubuntu and can even deploy on different platforms! Sounds like RedHat is confident in the quality of their products, unlike that sue-happy company.
The reason SCO lost is that SCO was wrong. SCO has a pretty good legal team too and that is why they were able to stay in the game this long, even though they had a very weak case with no real evidence presented. Well, that and some very tolerant judges.
SCOX is up 6 cents at the end of the trading day. I t boggles the mind how their stock has performed during all this bad news..
Actually, it is best called Danegeld. It rarely works out well for the target.
I checked the site and forum, but no search results on PS3. Having just bought a shiny new 60gig PS3, this release makes me wonder just how easy it could be to take fairly good advantage of all the cores.
Hmmm, it may be one of my first projects; six cores running @ 3.2GHz and an easy method of putting them to use. It would be interesting to parallelize pi calculation and see how long it would take to get one million digits.
I see your point, that you are not concerned about a MS lawsuit. I suspect that if you were a Linspire freak, that you would also use it as a server platform which would also invalidate the so called peace agreement.
I have been using Linux for about 13 years, so Linspire is not really targeted at me, but the target market will be buying the distro so they can get this imagined protection. That means they will be voluntarily giving up their GPL rights for that bit of temporary protection.
Their is a very large difference in the perceived threat between gnasher719 threatening to sue and Microsoft doing the same. In your example, the buyers of Redhat have not agreed to your terms, you merely made the offer. Now the terms I quoted above are part of the Linspire license agreement that is accepted while installing. Looks like a night and day difference between your example and the actual MS/Linspire pact. Please follow the groklaw story for far more qualified opinions than I am qualified to give.
Why, yes, I believe I can. Here is an excerpt from the MS-Linspire agreement:
MS defines a customer as someone they temporarily promise to not sue. If you want to know more, then you may want to read and participate in the groklaw article.
People that use a Linux distro that is newly encumbered by Microsoft patent agreements *cough*Linspire*cough* cannot use the compilers for development anyway. What does the actual GPL version matter to the users in that situation?
I am certainly not a lawyer, but MS has a ton of lawyers that seem to have become experts in the GPL arena and they seem to have little fear of GPL v2, but v3 seems to have them concerned. It seems that if developers want to stick with v2, then they may as well go all the way to the FreeBSD license. v3 is the future of free and open source projects that want to remain free in both senses until MS gets brave enough to sue over some vague patents. But if they can get enough partners like Linspire and Novell, they will have crippled much of the spirit that drives opensource. I plan on supporting companies that are standing up to the MS bullying in whatever ways I can.
And I thought that Beaver was the best espionage tool... Go figure.
Wow! You are the perfect poster child for the Democratic party.... Not! I have voted for both major parties and independants in the past. The Democratic and Republican sides of me sure hope you do not have children.
So does this detect the driver speaking on a cell phone or simply someone in the car talking on a cell phone? TFA did not give details. Seems like a big problem if they mistakenly identify a car and a ticket is issued for a passenger using a phone.
Have you actually worked with many different OSes? I have found VMS, Linux, various BSDs and AIX to be very different. Especially when talking about administration tasks. Not very superficial at all, related like a family, but can be as different as two children from the same parents.
I think they were referring to a more goatse like interview. Run. Like. Hell.
TFA says he is a Briton living in Australia since the age of 7, but doesn't mention his actual citizenship. I wonder if that played a part in the willingness of the Aussie gov to extradite. I think this is a very slippery slope they have ventured out onto and sets a dangerous precedent, which is what future legal actions are usually based on.
What happens if a muslim-centric country wanted to extradite me for breaking sharia laws? I've dated a woman that was separated but not divorced, consumed alcohol, don't adhere to the dress code, etc... Does this now mean that the US gov would willingly extradite me to Iran to be tried? It would seem that they already set the precedent that it would be acceptable.
It did indeed happen. I know someone that actually did this, slashdot user RockClimb (235954) and good friend for over 20 years.